home and i m so glad that he did. i m super excited that she s free and able to spend the time with her family. that was the brother of paul whelan on with my colleague andrea mitchell earlier today on msnbc. talking about his brother, who is still being held in russia. we have also in this program covered the plight of marc fogel, he s a teacher, he he too is still detained. to kevin s point, so are a lot of americans around the world. you ve been part of these efforts to free americans, it is quiet and not always successful work, but it is ongoing. yes, i i worked a little bit in the hostage affairs area, it s always run out of the white house, it s considered that important that what would be normally a state department function is worked out of the white house. people work 24/7 on these things . and the bias has been, let s do this behind the scenes, we can
recertify or scrap it or come up with another solution, and he was really angry, and they rewrote the talking points, did it late in the day. it s a midnight deadline. it s always been a state department function since the deal was agreed to, and he basically said we re taking it away. then this compromise was come up with reluctantly. they re going to throw it up to congress. congress does not want to deal with this other than tom cotton and a few others. they will have 60 days to do something. the british prime minister called him the other day and they basically are pleading with him not to do this, but this is what he s going to do. andrea mitchel, thank you. we ll be watching andrea mitchel reports to do at noon on msnbc. coming up, two of the top ranking democrats ben cardin and congressman adam schiff, and we
casey cas case i am the leader. trump is not reliable. trump is invited to bastille day the following week. there are tensions there. we don t have an ambassador in germany. we will see if that happens or not this week. not having a house is emblematic in the different way of grenfell tower being emblematic. that is a state department function. if you cannot fill the positions, you cannot influence policy. those are the nuts and bolts abroad. so, nicky woolf, i won t try to explain it. it is a vote of confidence. they support the queen s speech. for the american audience, it matters who runs great britain. if theresa may or is it sdadavi
legally. they sent a message. they don t care in the white house. they think that any time the media hyperconvenient at this lats and the democrats weanies complain about it. the more is the better. you don t have to hyperconvenient at this late. this is all calm. it smacks of a very authoritarian outlook toward government. kellyanne conway says hey, why aren t you firing people who said bad things about donald trump and predicted he would lose in the media. you have this attorney general doesn t agree with me, they are out. you have sean spicer saying hey, these career people who make this state department function, they don t like what they do, they should get out. this is very clear in terms of what they want. it is as david says a scorched earth policy. how do you feel about that as a conservative? well, i think it s like the roll-out obviously people are saying it was botched or it was incompetent. i think that s actually part of
the team is that assistant secretary level a counter-terrorism security group at the white house, those options are discussed. at that convening of the csg, that decision is recommended or not recommended to the deputies committee. it is not solely a state department function or authority to launch the foreign emergency support team even though we are one part of it. i thank the gentleman. we now go to the gentleman from oklahoma. thank you. more hicks, when you arrived in july, did the facilities in benghazi. megyn: wanted to get a quick break because we re going to reassume. i want to check in with brett. that was the first we ve seen where they got to the meat of it. you heard the man s complaint, no counterterrorism wasn t dealt out of this together but the most effective, most relevant branch of the counter-terrorism bureau was kept out of it.